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The Palmer arm and leg : adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-General, U.S.A., and by the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : manufactured only under the direction of the inventor and patentee

by: Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin); American Artificial Limb Company

Publication date: 1865

Topics: United States. Army, Artificial Limbs, Military Personnel, American Civil War

Publisher: Philadelphia [Pa. : American Art. Limb Company?]

Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

Cover title

Contains mostly testimonials from physicians and wearers of the limbs. Includes a list of soldiers on p. 32-33

"Amputations": p.44-48

NLM copy, accompanied by a printed letter from B. Frank Palmer, dated May 1st, 1865, in which he refers to the pamphlet as "just issued by the American Artificial Limb Company."

Condition reviewed

digitized